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Post by spsmiler on Mar 3, 2019 11:28:39 GMT
Hello everyone, this might be of interest.
Simon
Silent Super 8 cinė film plus many still images (110 and 35mm film) showing LNER designed Class 306 trains, plus also some views of the near identical Class 506 trains which ran on a line in Manchester. Especially during the first four minutes there is much information (in caption form). Footage also includes many views inside the trains - especially near the end of the film. Also seen are some other sliding door trains from that era (LPTB, LMS) and even the former third rail Tyneside Electrics get a mention! Much of what I filmed was solely for my own memories - the electronic mass communications and film sharing we have nowadays had not been invented in the late 1970's and early 1980's!
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Post by superteacher on Mar 3, 2019 13:43:35 GMT
Great video Simon. Such a shame that they don’t run the 306s in occasional passenger service like was done up to a few years ago. Would be great to see one next to a 345!
Is 017 still at Ilford?
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Post by bassmike on Mar 3, 2019 17:06:39 GMT
I was on the final tour of the 306 way back in the 90's I think and we stopped at Bow Rd:disused station for a break. During this the driver handed out a number of control keys for this stock alegedly genuine but very new-looking. I still have one. It looks like a fairly large spanner with two projecting studs.
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Post by spsmiler on Mar 3, 2019 17:53:51 GMT
Great video Simon. Such a shame that they don’t run the 306s in occasional passenger service like was done up to a few years ago. Would be great to see one next to a 345! Is 017 still at Ilford? I think its at Locomotion for refurbishment after many years outdoors at the East Anglia Railway Museum.
I would love to see it running again but do not know if this will be achieved - it might end up as a static museum piece.
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Post by stapler on Mar 4, 2019 9:52:07 GMT
Evocative compilation...thanks vm.
I thought the trains were really made to look worse when fitted with all over yellow ends in the 60s. oOe thing I do remember about them was the extreme paucity of non-smoking seating (granted, 90% of Essex man did smoke in those days); perhaps 50% Essex girls. What colour was the original moquestte? That dark grey and white stuff depicted in the interiors was cheap and nasty BR stuff of the late 60s.
As a small boy I can remember them being called green dragons; wonder why. Green rolling stock was a bit of a rarity on the GE, with plum and custard on the main line stock and dirty, faded red stained with much brake-dust on the Quints. Plus a bit of teak still on rarely-used relics Thornton Fields used to resurrect for excursions.
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